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Free Telecare Home Safety Service helps Essex elderly to live safely at home

Essex County Council , which is using intelligent telecare solutions from Tunstall Healthcare, reports on the success of its free Telecare Home Safety Service, which is enabling elderly people in Essex to live safely and independently in their own homes.

09 March 2010: Tunstall Group

 

Tunstall Response receives the 2009 Telecare Code of Practice accreditation

Tunstall Response receives a top industry accreditation as a result of the high quality of telecare monitoring and support it provides thousands of older and vulnerable people in the UK.

04 February 2010: Tunstall Group

 

Corventis receives 510(k) clearance for mobile cardiac telemetry systems

Corventis receives 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to market its NUVANT Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCT) System for the detection of non-lethal arrhythmias.

21 January 2010: Corventis

 

Blackpool telehealth project reduces hospital admissions by 75 percent

Blackpool Council’s Vitaline and NHS Blackpool have reported on the use of telehealth home monitoring to support people with long-term conditions to enable them to live independently at home.

20 January 2010: Tunstall Group

 

Spotsylvania agrees to partner TeleHealth Services for patient care

Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center selects TeleHealth Services as a partner in bringing enhanced patient care and clinical services to the Rappahannock region of Virginia.

18 January 2010: TeleHealth Services

 

Halton and St Helens Community Health Services selects Tunstall for telehealth

Halton and St Helens Community Health Services, in partnership with Sefton Careline, is launching a new telehealth monitoring project which will see telehealth systems from Tunstall Healthcare being set up in patients’ homes, enabling their health to be monitored remotely by nursing staff.

12 January 2010: Tunstall Group

 

Bioheart signs up US distributors for Home Heart Failure Monitoring Systems

Bioheart signs distribution agreements with Restoration Medical, McRay Medical, Alamo Scientific and Morey Medical.

06 January 2010: Bioheart

 

Orchard Medical Centre wins Health Business Telehealth Award

The Orchard Medical Centre receives the Health Business Telehealth Award as a result of the success of its use of telehealth to improve care for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).

16 December 2009: Tunstall Group

 

GE Healthcare acquires Living Independently Group

GE Healthcare acquires Living Independently Group, the provider of QuietCare, a passive monitoring system used to assist in the care of seniors.

04 December 2009: GE Healthcare

 

Sorin and Orange clinch major award for innovative remote monitoring solution

Orange Business Services and Sorin Group are named ‘Best Change-Maker’ at this year’s annual World Communication Awards (WCA) for their innovative work in the development of a remote monitoring solution for cardiac patients.

02 December 2009: Sorin

 

Verizon introduces new telehealth service tailored to collaborative technology

Verizon is introducing new services for physicians, hospitals, clinics and insurers that enable providers to 'see' patients through video consultations, as well as other collaboration services.

24 November 2009: Verizon Communications

 

Tunstall releases next-generation digital telecare solutions

Tunstall Healthcare is launching its range of next-generation, digital–ready telecare solutions, designed to give both service users and care providers more choice and flexibility at this year’s TSA National Telecare and Telehealth Conference.

17 November 2009: Tunstall Group

 

Dual language telehealth for Wales

Tunstall group provide Telehealth Solution in Welsh and English for the Anglesey and Gwynedd health boards

14 October 2009: Tunstall Group

 

Telehealth project to begin at NHS Dudley

Dudley Primary Care Trust wins award for the development of a telehealth system deployment for the management of patients with long-term conditions

01 October 2009: Tunstall Group

 

Preventative Social Care for Oldham with Telecare

Cost effective delivery of quality care into the community is the goal for Oldham Council with Telecare playing a key role in its deployment

03 September 2009: Tunstall Group

 

Blood pressure monitor uses mobile phone or internet for monitoring of patients

t+ Medical launches t+ blood pressure lite which enables NHS healthcare professionals to effectively monitor their patients’ blood pressure without patients having to leave their home.

25 August 2009: t+ Medical

 

Bristol GPs use telehealth solution to improve care of CHF patients

GPs at The Orchard Medical Centre in Bristol are reporting on the success of telehealth in improving care for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), keeping them independent and out of emergency care, and promoting greater self-management.

21 August 2009: Tunstall Group

 

Cardiac telemedicine service passes 50,000 calls landmark

Broomwell’s award-winning cardiac telemedicine service has now handled 50,000 calls from surgeries and community hospitals for people with chest-pain symptoms in England, saving an estimated 32,000 hospital referrals for patients since the service started in 2006.

18 August 2009: Broomwell Healthwatch

 

Ling Tung University selects IBM to create healthcare monitoring platform for senior citizens

Ling Tung University selects IBM to help it build a smarter healthcare system to monitor the health of senior citizens in Taiwan anywhere, at anytime.

26 May 2009: IBM

 

Tunstall launches interactive telehealth device with in-built GSM/GPRS

Tunstall Healthcare launches the company’s RTX3371 telehealth monitor - an interactive telehealth device with in-built GSM/GPRS mobile phone technology that collects vital signs wirelessly from a range of external devices such as weight scales and blood pressure cuffs.

05 May 2009: Tunstall Group

 

Scandinavian delegation visit telehealthcare initiatives in the UK

Swedish and Finnish local authority officials and health and social care leaders visit the UK to view the success of telehealthcare initiatives in offering personalised community-based care, ensuring an efficient use of available healthcare resources and improving quality of life.

01 May 2009: Tunstall Group

 

IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

FOCUS ZONE REPORT – A portable medical consultation system that operates in real-time, is the latest technological communications solution for hospitals, rural clinics, physicians and nurses developed by GlobalMedia, an Arizona-based innovator of video imaging and visual communications solutions used in the practice of telemedicine.

30 April 2009: GlobalMedia

 

IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – INTELLIGENT HEALTH

FOCUS ZONE REPORT – There are already 17.5million people living with chronic conditions in the UK and the Department of Health suggest that by 2030, incidences of chronic disease in the over 65s will more than double.

30 April 2009: Medilink West Midlands

 

Sorin and Orange collaborate to develop remote monitoring of CRM devices

Sorin Group together with Orange Business Services, the leading global communications solutions integrator, are planning to develop and service a remote monitoring solution for patients implanted with cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices.

20 March 2009: Sorin

 

St Jude Medical's new version of Merlin.net Patient Care Network receives US FDA approval

St Jude Medical has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the newest version of the Merlin.net Patient Care Network (PCN), a secure, Internet-based remote care system for patients with implanted medical devices.

17 March 2009: St Jude Medical

 
 
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